[S5E4] Source Code by Bill Gates

[S5E4] Source Code by Bill Gates

From Business Books & Co. by David Kopec, David Short, Kevin Hudak

June 8, 2025 · 1h 49m · Season 5 · Episode 4

About this episode

The episode discusses Bill Gates's childhood and early entrepreneurial ventures as detailed in his memoir, Source Code.

Bill Gates is known as the aggressive businessman who brought us Microsoft and pioneered the modern software business. But in his recent memoir, Source Code , we discover Trey, the kid with bad grades who resents his parents' authority. From childhood misfit to precocious teenage prodigy, he was a young person who never quite fit in but always had ambition. Source Code takes us through Bill Gates’s childhood, early entrepreneurial ventures, schooling, and the early years of Microsoft. Join us as we discuss the young Bill Gates. Thank you to our friends at Audible for sponsoring this episode. Check out AudibleTrial.com/biz for a 30-day free trial of Audible and free credits toward an audio book like Source Code . Show Notes Source Code by Bill Gates via Amazon BASIC: The Democratization of Computing via Kopec Explains Software Pirates of Silicon Valley via Amazon Idea Man by Paul Allen via Amazon Follow us on X @BusinessBooksCo and join our Amazon book club . Edited by Giacomo Guatteri Find out more at https://businessbooksandco.com Read transcript

People in this episode

Hosts: David Kopec, David Short, Kevin Hudak

Topics covered

  • Bill Gates
  • Microsoft
  • entrepreneurship
  • memoir
  • software industry
  • childhood
  • ambition

Keywords

  • Bill Gates
  • Source Code
  • Microsoft
  • entrepreneurship
  • memoir
  • software
  • childhood
  • ambition

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Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Microsoft

Books & works: Source Code, BASIC: The Democratization of Computing, Pirates of Silicon Valley, Idea Man

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